website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/downstream.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Downstream (disambiguation)	downstream	2018-04-12		May refer to: code in the Kubernetes ecosystem that depends upon the core Kubernetes codebase or a forked repo.		community

May refer to: code in the Kubernetes ecosystem that depends upon the core Kubernetes codebase or a forked repo.

• In the Kubernetes Community: Conversations often use downstream to mean the ecosystem, code, or third-party tools that rely on the core Kubernetes codebase. For example, a new feature in Kubernetes may be adopted by applications downstream to improve their functionality.
• In GitHub or git: The convention is to refer to a forked repo as downstream, whereas the source repo is considered upstream.